Gendered barriers to educational opportunities: resettlement of Sudanese refugees in Australia

Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in Australia.

OBJECTIVE To determine barriers that affect access to health care for refugees from sub-Saharan Africa resettled in Sydney. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiological study and survey. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Parents of newly resettled refugee children seen at a tertiary hospital paediatric clinic between 10 June 2005 and 19 May 2006. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Socioeconomic indicators, health seekin...

Refugees in Australia

Immigration has been of economic and social benefit to Australia, rather than a drain on public funds – the latter being a characterisation which is popular around migrant intakes (Tazreiter, 2004, 129), thus raising questions about the basis for hostility towards these refugees. All but the first wave of boat arrivals, often from developing countries, have been subject to mandatory and non-rev...

The Resettlement Experiences of Refugees from El Salvador

Investigating the barriers to the establishment of total quality management in educational and non-educational hospitals

Background and Objectives: One of the most popular systems for creating structural changes in hospitals is total quality management; Which is known as one of the most important philosophies to increase the effectiveness of the organization and competitive advantage. This study aimed to investigate the barriers to the establishment of TQM in hospitals in Kerman. Methods: This descriptive-correla...

Planning STI/HIV prevention among refugees and mobile populations: situation assessment of Sudanese refugees.

This article reflects an investigation of knowledge, attitudes and behaviours and HIV/STI prevalence of Sudanese refugees and Ethiopian sex workers in 1992. It represents one of the earliest such investigations within an African refugee population. The investigation took place in the Dimma refugee settlement in south-western Ethiopia and study participants included Sudanese refugee men and wome...